Verno wrote on Nov 15, 2011, 11:27:

wonkawonka wrote on Nov 15, 2011, 11:25:
Are you kidding? While the game doesn't "look like crap", it still does look dated, circa 2008. The textures are weak, weak, weak. So yes, I for one will be clamoring for higher res textures.

Calling them weak seems a bit much. I'd love for higher quality ones but they don't detract from the experience in any way and thematically most seem to fit very well.

Nope. The launcher requires steam, the game itself doesn't. You can fudge down the skyrim stats by simply running the skyrim.exe, it's not encrypted. And doesn't require steam to run.

Right but everyone has to at least activate on Steam was his point I guess. Sure there will be people running it without Steam but I don't think that'll be significant numbers. The concurrent figures are impressive but don't tell the whole story, I'm sure the figure far surpasses it considering all of the timezone nonsense, differing routines and so on.